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Griefcast

Ep. 68 Poorna Bell

Griefcast

Griefcast

Performing Arts, Education, Comedy, Arts, Loss, Bereavement, Grief, Death, Cariad Lloyd, Self-improvement, Comedy Interviews

4.73K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Cariad talks to writer and journalist Poorna Bell (Chase the Rainbow, In Search of Silence) about her husband Rob, who took his own life in 2015. As ever they talk grief, strength and how to survive awkward conversations.


You can follow Poorna on twitter and instagram @poornabell. Her book Chase The Rainbow is available now and In Search of Silence is published 2nd May. You can follow Griefcast on twitter and instagram @thegriefcast and you can email thegriefcast@gmail.com


Griefcast won Gold (always believe in your soul) in Best Entertainment, Best Interview + also Podcast of the Year 2018 at the British Podcast Awards and Best Podcast at the ARIA's. It is hosted by Cariad Lloyd, edited by Kate Holland, recorded at Whistledown Studios and the music is provided by The Glue Ensemble.

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0:00.0

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0:08.6

Just hit the link in the show description to support now.

0:19.8

You're listening to Giefcast with me, Carrie Adloyd.

0:24.8

How do we Gief for someone?

0:26.8

How does it change and evolve as we get older?

0:31.0

My dad died when I was 15 and it took me many, many years to be able to express what I had gone through.

0:38.0

So I decided to create Giefcast, a chance to talk, share and laugh about the weirdness of Gief and death.

0:45.0

But with comedians, so it's not that depressing, I promise.

0:50.0

Each time I talked to a different comedian about their own personal experience of Gief

0:54.0

as we remember someone that they have lost along the way.

0:58.0

Whether it was a long time ago or you've just joined the club,

1:00.0

this is a chance to talk about the peculiar human process of death.

1:06.0

Welcome to Giefcast.

1:17.0

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1:20.0

Now, I don't know how much time you spend on yourself any given week,

1:24.0

but you may notice that sometimes you end up spending more time on other people than you do on yourself.

1:29.0

We all live very busy, demanding lives and I don't know about you.

1:32.0

I find I've got my inbox that needs dealing with and then there's a social media inboxes

1:36.0

and text messages and then what's that?

1:38.0

And it can get very overwhelming.

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